Roots in the City on Thursday

Don't forget that we will be meeting at the Roots in the City garden to bring our semester to an end.  Please bring your service-learning forms, your pigeon peas (gandules), and a one-page reflection of your service activities this semester.  Here's a map to the garden:

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Writing about Osama

We will finish the film today. Here's your assignment:


Have your paragraph completed by the end of our next class. Please drop it off electronically instead of coming to class this Thursday. Here's the link to the drop box.

More on Sentence Types

Here are some resources to help you add to your own toolkit to increase sentence variety:

• Conjunctions
• Sentence Punctuation Patterns

Agreements

Class Activities

• Share photographs and essays.
• Go over subject-verb agreement rules.
• Take a short quiz.
• Book discussion.

Homework

• For those of you who are not caught up with the lab, today is your chance.  Have all lab assignments completed by our next class.  
• I also want everyone to retake the Subject-Verb Agreement portion of the lab before we see each other again on Thursday.
• Read through Chapter 14 of Three Cups of Tea.

Important Links for the Photo Contest

Here are the two links we went over in class.  Remember that you will need to print the form and also mat your photographs.

• Rules
• Form
• Pearls Art Supplies

Working with Images: Creating Stories

Today we looked at some Clyde Butcher photographs and created a one page brainstorm.  The idea is to help us warm up to the photographs we will be taking this weekend.  Pay close attention to the light and the way water, sky, and land relate to one another in the images.

Homework
--Complete the following in MyWritingLab

• Subjects and Verbs
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Combining Sentences
• ESL Concerns--Nouns  

--Take your South Florida photograph.

--Bring at least two pages of brainstorming to class on Thursday.

--Read through Chapter 12 of Three Cups of Tea.


There is no class on Tuesday.  Use the time to catch up with your work!

Ten Times Out, Ten Times In

This week we move toward writing about what we see.  Someone has said that seeing is believing, but this statement can easily be turned on its head:  Believing is seeing. So what do we believe that allows us to see the world around us a certain way?   Essay #2 asks for a photograph of something that is non-human that somehow is related to you as the observer.  The image will be accompanied by a text, an essay that will help us better understand that connection.  But if you don't believe the connection, you may actually miss it altogether--you may not see it.
With that in mind, I want to share a short visual exercise that may help us explore the notion of relations and relationships.  It has to do with looking at the universe in powers of 10.

the powers of 10 from Bomi Lee on Vimeo.

In your blogs, go ahead and take the Powers of Ten video and embed it.  Provide a list of questions regarding the video; muse about your approach to your photographic essay.  Keep it all to around 300 words.  Have fun!